Cool Native American Rhetoric

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Cool Media Conversation:interactive media "effect" rather than meaning high participationinterrelation of knowledgemoment of newness Native American Rhetoric:English is an Indian languageact of survivanceIndian English - literarycreative application/appropriationexaminations of 19th - early 20th centuries Indians writing in English

Contemporary Indian English is Cool "Samson Occom as Writing Instructor: The Search for an Intertribal Rhetoric"Kimberly Roppolo

Rhetorical Borderland - "liminal zone where things are much murkier [than classical rhetorical space] because of the lack of homogeneity; because of a lack of shared beliefs, values, and assumptions; because of a lack of communal interests or goals; because of a lack of trust [...] however, this liminal area can be a zone of change, [...] a space within which the kind of positive and productive interaction between Native and non-Native scholars [...] can exist" (Roppolo 306). Native American Rhetorical Characteristics:-RoppoloAppeals to Ethos - common experiencemultiple messages for different audiencesgreater acceptance of paradoxdefy genre boundariesvalue communally made meanings audience fills in the gapsradical act of love for communitypolite - suspend judgementcode switchingallusionsindirect discourseimplication instead of explication

Cool Media Characteristics :-RiceChoraAppropriationJuxtapositionCommutationNonlinearityImagery How do these relate?

Regional Applications:

We need to incorporate Cool Contemporary Indian English in our composition/rhetoric courses, thus taking advantage of the rhetorical borderland, especially in Oklahoma.

By doing so, we "validate Native ways of constructing arguments in the academy, [...] and speak to [Native] communities in ways that are culturally acceptable and recognizable" (Roppolo 321).

90% of Native Americans speak and write in Indian English as their first language

30%-50% of university students in Oklahoma are Native American Living in a Rhetorical Borderland: The Coolness of Contemporary Indian English